Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. I first encountered Agile Development in 2005, when a team I supported was chosen to help pilot Scrum development methodology at Yahoo!

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Moves the Needle

MARCH 1, 2023

It was their job to ensure all aspects of the product development process were aligned and working together. Program management was steeped in technical processes, but also considered how product decisions would impact the product’s end users. I had never heard of Agile. We were Waterfall.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 31, 2010

I built a team with a dedicated user researcher; information architect; interaction and visual designers and we even made a guerilla usability lab and had regular test sessions. As the Creative Director, I deferred authority to him to develop the product as he saw fit. Where did Agile come from?

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Innov8rs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This synchronized system is called InnovationOps, which marks the next phase of evolution of innovation management in large organizations- like DevOps that was coined in 2009, to operationalize software development. This also helps to cultivate a culture of continuous learning, and the agility that comes with it.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 8, 2019

The result: development of a market-ready product ( lineup™ ) in a fraction of the time, and the confidence to apply their strengthened skill set to other areas of uncertainty. “ We used to be so focused on releasing good products that we didn’t validate if we were spending time on the right thing, which slowed us down.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 1, 2021

Jira Software is a project management application from Atlassian. A company specialized in product development for software developers and managers. Jira is one more case of project management tools focused on a specialty: software development projects.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Waterfall Development. While it sounds simple , the Build Measure Learn approach to product development is a radical improvement over the traditional Waterfall model used throughout the 20 th century to build and ship products. The entire point of getting out of the building is to inform the founder’s vision.

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